From Mark Robinson’s The Tackle. He was drunk when he wrote this given the typos.
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7. Coolers
The tagger is slowly and surely returning to the game. Two of them in one team is even better. And no team does it better than Sydney. The Swans dropped the blueprint of how to stop Carlton. It’s not exactly splitting the atom to say that Cripps and Walsh have to be curtailed, but the proof is in the doing and not the planning. James Rowbotham went to Cripps and James Jordan went to Walsh. Cripps had 24 and five clearances and Rowbottom had 19 disposals, six clearances and 16 tackles. Walsh had 20 and four score involvements against Jordan’s 16 and six score involvements. The Sydney plan allowed Warner, Gulden and Heeney to play without really worrying about the opposition’s two best players. What we learnt was 1. the Swans have the perfect midfield balance and 2. any team which doesn’t try to cool Cripps and Walsh has rocks in their head.
Likes:
7. Coolers
The tagger is slowly and surely returning to the game. Two of them in one team is even better. And no team does it better than Sydney. The Swans dropped the blueprint of how to stop Carlton. It’s not exactly splitting the atom to say that Cripps and Walsh have to be curtailed, but the proof is in the doing and not the planning. James Rowbotham went to Cripps and James Jordan went to Walsh. Cripps had 24 and five clearances and Rowbottom had 19 disposals, six clearances and 16 tackles. Walsh had 20 and four score involvements against Jordan’s 16 and six score involvements. The Sydney plan allowed Warner, Gulden and Heeney to play without really worrying about the opposition’s two best players. What we learnt was 1. the Swans have the perfect midfield balance and 2. any team which doesn’t try to cool Cripps and Walsh has rocks in their head.